THREAD: Tucker Carlson explicitly stated his belief in great replacement conspiracy theory this week, but he's been hinting at it for ages. Here's a recap of what he's said about immigrants and immigration in 2021.
April 12, 2021: Tucker Carlson defends his support and promotion of white supremacist “replacement” theory: “Demographic change is the key” mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson…
THREAD: Tucker Carlson is once again pushing the debunked conspiracy that COVID-19 was genetically engineered in a lab, and airing claims that the pandemic was intentionally released by China, using a dubiously souced "study" linked to Steve Bannon.
On September 14th, Li-Meng Yan, a researcher who fled Hong Kong, posted a paper claiming that she and other researchers had found a way to recreate SARS-CoV-2 in a lab. The paper drew the interest of conservative media and Tucker Carlson. zenodo.org/record/4028830…
During the segment Yan claimed that the virus was intentinally created in a lab by the Chinese and is not a naturally occuring virus. Despite ever increasing evidence that this claim is false, Tucker did not raise objections or make an attempt to push back on the claim
Here’s an ongoing thread of Fox News personalities excusing, deceptively framing, and omitting information regarding the Kenosha shooting and the murder of protestors.
Right wing media has been hyping the possibility of “patriots” taking up arms and “defending themselves“ against protestors for weeks now, it was only a matter of time before people died and you can bet your ass they’ll blame everyone but the shooter.
The amount of times “leftists are self destructive” turns out to mean “leftist women should keep their discomfort with electing sexual predators to themselves” is too high 🙃
Misogyny and cultures of abuse don’t reset when a man reaches a life milestone, be it turning 18, 21, marriage, running for office, promotions, parenthood etc. Passing those milestones without accountability/consequences tends to reinforce the idea that misogyny is no biggie.
So as long as things like:
“He was young”
“He was early in his career”
“He’s a father now, it’s different”
keep getting used to excuse abuse, boys who grow into men will continue to think that there are built in expiration dates on the trauma they inflict on women.